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The people at the very top of our large corporations: what guides the decisions they take and does it matter? The TUC’s new pamphlet on “corporate governance” is made up of…

The proposal for a new ‘golden rule’ for the conduct of macroeconomic policy, published in a new report by the Fabian Society, takes our earlier arguments about the importance of…

Does the rise in corporate savings since 2001 reflect the fact that UK companies have been creating and acquiring assets abroad rather than creating them at home?  Whereas the…

If the public sector deficit is to come down, the other sectors’ surpluses must come down too, especially that of the corporate sector which is the biggest of them.  This is indeed…

What explanations have been offered for the UK’s large and long-standing corporate sector surplus, which seems at odds with the conventional economic view of corporations as…

As with the savings of individuals or households, the UK corporate sector surplus can be higher either because income is higher or because spending and other outgoings are lower. …

The corporate sector surplus did not just emerge on the back of the recession but has instead been ever present since 2002.  While a temporary surplus is quite normal, a persistent…